The Sandbox Receives New Update and Nominated for App Store Best of 2012 Games
Developer Pixowl Games and publisher BulkyPix have announced their hit title The Sandbox has been nominated for the App Store Best of 2012 Games. The game already has over 1.7 million players worldwide who have helped create over 100,000 unique worlds that have been shared in-game. The unique title challenges players to build their own universe in a sandbox as a deity apprentice using all of the elements at the player's disposal including lighting, lava and sand. In addition to this tremendous announcement, the creators have also released update version 1.1 for The Sandbox as well, which adds plenty of new content including new skillsets for your humans, a new campaign with 15 missions, daily quests and new worlds. Read on for more details and check out the newest trailer for The Sandbox below to learn all about the new skillsets in version 1.1!
The Sandbox 1.1 Features:
The human race at your fingertips - teach them how to evolve by assigning four complementary skillsets (miner, hunter, woodcutter and builder).
1 new engrossing campaign: Tom the castaway, with 15 missions to teach Tom how to survive on his desert island.
Daily quests: complete the missions to win free mana every day.
New worlds where you can let your imagination run wild.
For more information or to download and play the game, check out the official The Sandbox game website.
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